Trade, Empire and British Foreign Policy, 1689-1815 by Jeremy... - 9780415759458

Name: Trade, Empire and British Foreign Policy, 1689-1815 by Jeremy... - 9780415759458
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Jeremy Black

Trade, Empire and British Foreign Policy, 1689-1815Politics of a Commercial State\nAuthor(s): Jeremy Black\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415759458, 978-0415759458\nSynopsis\nThis new volume examines the influence of trade and empire from 1689 to 1815, a crucial period for British foreign policy and state-building.\n\nJeremy Black, a leading expert on British foreign policy, draws on the wide range of archival material, as well as other sources, in order to ask how far, and through what processes and to what ends, foreign policy served commercial and imperial goals during this period. The book is particularly interested in the conceptualization of these goals in terms of international competition, and how the contours and contents of this conceptualization altered during this period. Trade, Empire and British Foreign Policy, [tel] also analyzes how the relationships between trade, empire and foreign policy wer.